Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - London / Ealdnoth - 'Lord Stewartby Collection' Portrait Penny 780-792 AD

Light coinage. Obv: profile diademed and draped bust left breaking the inner pellet circle with +OFFA+ +REX legend with inverted R. Rev: +EAL / dNOd legend in two lines with pellets in angles of initial cross and with fleur-ended beaded line with pellets in angles between for the moneyer Ealdnoth at London mint. Very fine. The only recorded example for these dies.(1.27 grams.).

Provenance

Baldwin, 1999 (with ticket).
Lord Stewartby collection sale 1, lot 84 (with copy of auction catalogue page).
Acquired AMR Coins (with ticket).
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10966-179983.

Published

Chick, Derek, The Coinage of Offa and his Contemporaries, BNS Special Publication No.6, Spink, 2010, coin no.34a (this coin).

Literature

S. 905; N. -; Chick 34a.

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LOT 8001

Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - London / Ealdnoth - 'Lord Stewartby Collection' Portrait Penny

Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,720

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